YOUSEF HATLANI / FACES ON THE RADIO

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Alright, way to keep Portland weird! Er, I mean, way to keep it "neoliberally progressive"!

See, here in "Portlandia", it's Ok to marginalize everybody except for the most popular "subculture", i.e. Portland's white liberal class of hipster narcissists and mom & pop venture capitalists all up in this b!tc# to flip real estate and food cart crepes.

And not to digress, but (shrugs) that idiotic show, "Portlandia", ain't about this once blue collar working class bastion of my hometown....it's about MARKETING a playground built by a bunch of wealthy transplants whom flocked in droves to consolidate and gentrify every square inch of inner/whiter Portland.

This PPB policy of cracking down on non-violent music events, simply reflects the broader desire of Portland's so called "progressive" liberals - a bunch of mom & pop venture capitalists - to further white wash Portland into it's "new" brand of acceptable homogeneity/"weirdness".
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Which artist has the gang ties according to Police?
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The Blue Monk is a weird, tiny venue for a hip-hop show.
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this is fucked. sounds like Seattle 10+ years ago.
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Anthony has an excellent point
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Anthony - exactly how do the neoliberal crepe parents dictate what the police do? Do they have a direct line bat signal the PPB gave them, that OG blue collar bastion portlanders aren't allowed to use? I believe that their desire to whitewash everything into safely leashed weirdness is real - but how the police are at its beck and call, a link you're saying is so simple to see - I don't see that link - can you clarify it, how they control what the police do more so than other groups or areas of town
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It's a shame that you couldn't find any photos of Luck-One to attach to this post.
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I can only hope that the cops were there with some knowledge that we in the general public do not have, and were acting on behalf of public safety.
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Papier, sorry to burst your bubble, and long story short, over the course of generations the U.S. judicial system shifted from Courts of Law into courts of admiralty/equity.

One of the many repercussions of this merging of equity and law is that the Police have a greater obligation to protect property, not to protect your constitutionally recognized rights.

Now, what kind of people comprise the largest demographic of Portland's wealthiest private property owners and real estate investors, and, are they predominantly upper middle class neoliberal transplants from New York, California, etc?

You tell me, kiddo.
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It sounds like they were just about twenty to thirty police officers short of exceeding their legal capacity.
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Ryan Feigh sounds like quite the unbiased observer, "making a quick joke about how ridiculous [the police presence] was" before even knowing what was going on. Then he throws in a line about the cops looking like "'roided-out looking tough guys with guns" to go along with his earlier bit about them "glaring at the crowd like statues with weapons". This is clearly a guy who hasn't made up his mind about things before hearing all the facts, right?

"The only thing clear to me is that in a case such as this, the arriving officers are clearly not there to protect anyone," he says. According to the Oregonian, 120 people were in the basement, which has a maximum capacity of 85. These limits are put in place to protect people, Ryan, regardless of their color or taste in music.

More units were called in because attendees reportedly made hostile comments toward the officers that first arrived and noticed the capacity violation. The same article notes that "some hip-hop promoters have asked for increased police presence because past fights had made it difficult to find a venue willing to host the shows. It's possible attendees and performers felt the events were targeted by police, he (the police spokesman) said, but in reality organizers requested their presence."

But, yes, RACISM!!!
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Anthony - I'm not blowing no bubble to burst, I'm trying to follow your observation and understand it. That's why I said clarify, not muddy, your point - citing some generations-long timeline of US judicial system admiralty courts shit. What? Make it relevant to what we're talking about in Portland now, and appropriate to the readership of this paper. Or, just say it's complicated, and don't use language saying how the objective facts are so 'simply reflected,' when that's probably just the reflection of your own feelings.

When this show was happening, mom & pop venture capitalist were at home watching portlandia on netflix with their dumb baby and some salt & straw ice cream they obscenely overpaid for (the flavors = acceptable portland weirdness). Maybe on the way back, they saw a large group of people out for the show, spilling onto the street, and they were mostly black, and though they'd never share it publicly, they don't like the feeling that gives them. Did they pick up the phone and call the cops on them? Did they pen a letter about how more cops are needed in their neighborhood now, based on these unsettling congregatings of people they don't know, and the PPB swiftly re-allocated its resources accordingly? If born and raised Portlanders with less property, elsewhere in town made a similar appeal or call to PPB, alarmed about people or a group they deemed shady, would they get less of a response? As CA/NY-transplant mom & pop whitewasher sit in their living room eating their ice cream, some fucked-up racist sentiments may lie in their brains and their visions of future Portland. But they're not up and demanding that the PPB go out and enforce those views, and making that happen. Or if they are, your comment doesn't prove it. In Portland, recently, actual people, "kiddo."
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That's be funny if it was the police presence that put the venue over capacity.
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More pictures of Luck, fewer facts about what really happened, please.

Also, fucked up, judicial, California mom-and-pop 1% holistic anti-rights privileged racism is obviously at work.
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Meanwhile, I was about 20 or 30 blocks away seeing a noteworthy new band's first public performance. The tiny bar was packed to the rafters. You could barely move in there. Over capacity? Ummm, yeah. Definitely. Of course the cops didn't show up because it was a crowd of those harmless, bearded, indie-rock people.

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